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Akin is as dumb as a rock. Claire McCaskill's campaign spent $2 million dollars in ads backing Akin in his primary bid. Liberals want him to stay in the race because McCaskill actually has a chance to beat him even in the heavily right leaning state of Missouri.

She might not fair so well against a less crazy Republican candidate and the rest of the GOP knows it. That's why Rush, Sean, Mitt etc want him out.

McCaskill invested in helping Akin win the GOP primary earlier this month, spending $2 million on ads describing Akin as “too conservative.” She got her wish, as Akin won in a three-way race with 36 percent of the vote.

Missouri leans heavily to the right? We have a democrat governor... This state is almost split down the middle, the cities (Kansas City, and St.Louis) are very liberal... Rural missouri is very conservative but there are a lot of democrats that also live in rural Missouri (like me).

Actually, the suburbs of Saint Louis and Kansas City are more conservative than rural Missouri. The same pattern exists across the country. Big cities are consistently the most liberal (or closest to liberal) in any state and the suburbs are the most conservative (or closest to conservative). It's all relative.

It depends. Pennsylvania used to follow the pattern you describe, but now large chunks of the Philadelphia suburbs are more Democratic than Pittsburgh. It's all about culture; if your culture is one where you have to deal with your fellow human beings every day, then you might care about what happens to them. If you spend all your time either with people exactly like you and your family, or sealed off in your car, then you can say "I got mine" without the cognitive dissonance catching up with you.

(Standard disclaimers, exceptions always exist, YMMV. But if you want to understand the cultural schism in America today, best place to look is the urban/rural divide.)

McCaskill definitely wants him in. This is hilarious, because his staying in only hurts the GOP nationally, which they understand. The RNC wants him out. He admitted on Hannity that not one sitting Senator has his support.

The GOP understands they can run on this issue regionally, but not nationally. Even his pal Ryan who fundamentally agrees with Akin's views phoned him to encourage his resignation. It's the GOP that wants him out. The "liberal media" are just fine with talking about him until November.

I think they can take it to court up until sometime in late September. But it's much more complicated at this point. It may also shed light on some more insanity if they bring it to court, so they may be cutting their loses at this point. I don't know.

And I think the point is that, as it currently stands, no Republican is really any better than Akin, as his views are pretty mainstream in the party, seeing as how the platform includes a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, without any rape or incest exclusion.

Although, the cynic in me says that it's just because women's issues are an upfront topic this year and the Repubs already look bad enough. The RNC Chairman is already saying that Romney "led the charge" against Akin.

They pulled funding in an attempt to keep the issue away from Paul Ryan's co-sponsoring of that forcible rape bill. Akin staying in the race means that the media coverage of his race will inevitably include a phrase along the lines of the following: "Todd Akin, who as you might remember cosponsored a bill with Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan outlawing abortion in all cases except forcible rape..."

I can see why they wanted to avoid that. Now I just wonder what they'll do if he doesn't pull out of the race. Is it worth losing a Senate seat over or will they find a way to fund him?

Right, but you said that they sure are awfully quiet. What's left for them to say now? They've already said that he's wrong (even if they are, as seems obvious from other statements and official positions, being disingenuous) and they've pulled funding.

Well, hmm, what could they do if they genuinely disagreed with him and weren't doing it for show/to get someone else in there. What could they do, what could they do. Yep, that's a tough one.

OH, I know!

How about not adopting a political platform that affirms Akin's stance? The Republican platform calling for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion with no exception for rape or incest really sums up that they actually agree with Akin.

Phew, you nearly had me there! Except, well, for that whole "This is the political agenda for the whole party" thing they adopted.

They are absolutely part and parcel of the same old misogyny. I'm not disagreeing with you.

They are still two completely different statements.

Did you see any of the recent articles about certain universities in Saudi Arabia which are no longer allowing women to study certain topics, including everything from English to physics?

Some interviewed citizens said, "Women don't have the mental capacity to study these subjects."

Some said, "Women in these subjects are surpassing men in their studies, which shouldn't be allowed."

These are both terribly misogynistic statements to make, but they directly contradict each other.

Similarly, if Mike Huckabee believed that women can't pregnant from rape, he wouldn't say, "Some great people were the products of rape, therefore women who get pregnant after rape shouldn't get abortions."

He can still drop out until September, but he would have to pay for the printing of the new ballots with the new candidate on them. Of course there are many GOP donors with deep pockets <cough>Koch brothers Adelson</cough> who might be willing to pick up the tab with some of their pocket change.

If you go to his twitter he clearly talks about how he's getting donations to fight the liberal menace. Completely ignoring the fact it's his own party that is divided on making him drop out or stay in the race.

Why is it that whenever a Republican says anything, it's always the liberal media? I mean, Democrats do many stupid and annoying things as well, but they don't blame the "conservative media" in droves like Republicans seem to. Well, I guess politicians are good at pointing fingers, and they need to point at ghost rather than an elephant I guess.

I am not American, so take this with a grain of salt, but no. They don't want you to drop out. They want you to stay, to keep opening the pit of retardation on your face and let them keep showing people what kind of monster you are. That's what they want.

The liberals love this. Him being in the race pretty much means that the seat is going to go for D this time around. I will say however, that I am a bit surprised that the media is going after this particular statement. It's not like that's the entire party platform for the last few years or anything.

He just said it in a slightly more pants on head retarded sort of way.

Apparently the Missouri democratic party was running attack ads on him during their primary... In a sort of reverse psychology sort of way. "If those dirty libruls are skeered of dis Akin guy, I better vote for 'im!"

This is why I hate politics, whenever someone gets called out, it more or less seems like the first thing they do is call out the other parties "agenda" and how they're trying to put him/her down. Seriously just man up and say you fucked up and drop the hell out!

"The Liberal Media" are these right-wing extremists really still trying to push this lie? Please, Mr Akin, name your "libjural medjia" sources. Is NPR liberal for giving precedence to facts rather than opinion? Is that liberal? What about all the other corporate media outlets? Are they liberal too?

Outrage about his statements isn't going to do anything but reinforce these beliefs in his base. His statements are offensive, but the media's over coverage of this is just allowing him to rally supporters, and get his name out in the open. As we have all seen with Donald Trump, name recognition is one of the most important things for politicians no matter how out of touch they are.

The liberal media would love to book Akin on every primetime show there is.

Just another example of these teabaggers using the term "liberal media" with absolutely no idea what that means. I cannot say I'm surprised coming from a man who until a few days ago believed a woman's body shut down if a rape was "real".

All you people saying he's going to lose because the GOP is pulling funding from him must be high on something.

I will bet - maybe not $10000 - but $100, that they are going to pour in money as usual to grab the senate seat. You heard all the Republicans calling for him to drop out, not because of his offensiveness towards women, but it might hurt their chances for the Senate. They care about nothing except grabbing power to stop evil Kenyan Socialist Obama.